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In article <C16Csw.n27@waterloo.hp.com> siim@waterloo.hp.com (Brad Siim) writes:
>I keep seeing the same questions every month?
>
>PCB help
>book recomendations
>PAL help
>power supplies/regulators
>amplifiers
>PC layout package requests
>passive component questions
>equipment questions. What to buy
>protocal and IEEE standards questions
>How to prototype high speed digital/analog
>
>And these are just the ones that have caught my attention.  There are many
>beginner type queries as well. Anybody got the time to administer a FAQ or 10?
>(I'm not sure how its done but I'm sure someone has to volunteer.)
>Many of these FAQ's would be a great source of reference to a full time
>designer and to the hobbiest, but much of the information is lost because
>many of us do not have time/will to re-answer an old question. 
>
>Brad Siim

 Probably because no one is willing to spend the time or disk space to make
an FAQ a reality. Then there is the other very-real problem, that of the new
or non-english speakers that will ALWAYS waste bandwidth to ask the Internet
how to fix their broken TV/VCR/Radio/tape deck/etcetra ad nauseum..I suggest
the creation of a new newsgroup for such requests:

    alt.can-someone-please-help-me-fix-my-appliance


 Because the truth is, even though most of these requests come from people
who work in the "hi-tech" fields, there is no ammount of assistance that will
carry them through when it come to ACTUALLY repairing the device! They will 
fuss and futz with it and finally say "FUCK IT!", trash the bastard and buy`
another anyway. If there was a formal place for the techno-ignorant and the
techno-martyrs to meet we could reduce the volume here to something like 40%
...and I don't want a bunch of sniveling flames from you wannabe teachers, face
it: 99% of the world's populace is unable to draw a crystal set schematic, let
alone actually fix a vcr - even with help. They should RTFM first ANYWAY!


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